Podcast: Urban climate action for today and tomorrow

If you’re a member of SmartCitiesWorld, you’ll know that one of the topics we cover probably most regularly is climate change, and more specifically climate action – what does action look like for cities, where are they making progress, what still needs to be done, and how can they build resilience into their planning now?

On this episode, SmartCitiesWorld senior editor Luke Antoniou is joined by two special guests from global engineering, management and development consultants, Mott MacDonald: Clare Wildfire, Global Practice Lead for Cities, and Madeleine Rawlins, Global Practice Lead for Climate Change. With their help, this episode delves further into some of those questions above to work out where we are, the good and bad of progress so far, and what lays on the path to a greener urban future.

Listen now for more on progressing the narrative on urban climate action, the potential for a green recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of building resilience into city strategies across the board from here on out, and methods of funding the urgent climate action cities need.

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Clare Wildfire

In her global leadership role at Mott MacDonald, Clare uses systemic engineering at building and city scales to push boundaries and, most importantly, improve people’s lives. She leads regeneration, low carbon and sustainable innovation projects. From her 30 years’ experience in the sector, originally as a building services engineer on low impact buildings, Clare combines her practical understanding of construction and development drivers and processes at macro and micro levels with policy engagement, bringing insight into the technical, political, financial and behavioural aspects of sustainable development and healthy, resilient, low carbon living.

Madeleine Rawlins

Madeleine leads Mott MacDonald’s international climate and environment portfolio as well as working with the Mott MacDonald Executive Board to embed climate change across the business. She brings over 20 years’ international experience in climate change, including managing one of the largest carbon credit portfolios in the world based out of Asia as well as leading international policy programmes on climate change.